I remember one of the past challenges was a black metal challenge, so what would people think of doing a doom metal challenge. I choose doom because it can be a very diverse genre, and would produce (hopefully) a lot of interesting songs for a challenge.

I suppose I could host. I but we have to pretty much decide if that's going to be challenge, cause I have probably have six usable days to write, record, and mix my song... which is actually about all I would need anyway. just sucks it'll be split between the entire month of Nov.

For the next challenge, something cool to do -I think-, would be to be slightly more restrictive to make us think outside of the box, force us to find a way to do something out of the norm for example: writing in 5/4, forcing an unsual theme into a genre, using a type of folk other than european, you know what I mean.

Yep. Not a lot of people seem to be interested though, but I'd definitely like to try my hand at it.

In fact, I think I'll set up a pre-challenge thread soon to gather around all potential participants before we start the challenge. If it fails, at least we'll know beforehand, and then we can surely do something else.

Hmmm interesting. I don't have or play any acoustic instruments, but I could maybe do all the synths and effects for someone. Or maybe even get one of my bandmates to do some shit for me, he can play a mandolin pretty well. Eh, we'll see, might just depend on how busy I am when it goes ahead.

Not really fancying the idea of neofolk myself. Just seems too specific, I guess. It's the kinda thing that generally calls for acoustic instruments (harder to record) and clean vocals (difficult for people to do). Personally, I can do clean vocals just fine, but I can't play guitar or piano well enough I don't think.

Neofolk does not require acoustic instruments; imitations of aforementioned will do fine, such as synth piano or acoustic guitar sim (heck, even just clean electric guitar, neofolk does not necessitate a nylon stringed guitar tone or anything). I advocate neofolk, since it's a style that gives the composer considerable freedom of expression. If everyone wants metuhl riffz though, I will fully accept that aswell and most likely participate in the next challenge.

Spoken word is common in neofolk, and doubtless the single easiest form of vocals.